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...expense of such caution was added the extra costs of a deliberate slowdown on construction to recheck everything in the process. For example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock...
This is not to say that the basic security legislation is totally bad. But its unimaginative and rigid interpretation has caused considerable slowdown...
...supersonic bomber, brought snorts from the Air Force itself. Reasons: 1) the B-52 depends for support, as the President said, on its jet tankers-but the U.S. now has only 30 such tankers operational, and is getting only four new ones a month under the Administration's slowdown; 2) no production contract for B-58s has yet been announced; and 3) the B58 was considered not as a successor to the long-range B-52 but to the B57 medium-range bomber...
...union leaders for "More!", the Labor Party's top leaders agree on the necessity for wage restraint and monetary controls-but only when combined with price, rent, building and business controls to put the workers in a better mood for restraint. The Conservatives were betting that their intentional slowdown of the economy, without any of Labor's favorite controls, would curb inflation, restore confidence in the economy, the government and the Tory Party's leadership...
...EXPORT SLOWDOWN is coming. Government economists figure that exports will run at annual rate of $18.5 billion in first half of 1958, v. $19.75 billion pace earlier this year...